Yesterday, I was lucky enough to be invited to a special Sony event at a fancy hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, showing off a slew of games that are coming out in the next several months.

To give you some context, I saw all of the PS3 and PS2 games on beautiful large flat screen LCD screens, and Sony showed off all of the PSP games on its recently released slim version.

It’s hard to beat seeing games months before anyone else. The only thing I had to constantly keep in mind is that these are all works in progress. You pretty much have to let some of the sound and graphical bugs go, and just hope they are fixed by launch day. That being said, the resounding theme was polish.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be putting out previews of each title to show you what I mean by that.

I was surprised by the titles that most impressed me. Having played hundreds of hours of Hot Shots Golf, I knew I’d like that game. As I told Sony’s PR team, I could have easily played that game for the entire day.

But I was really impressed by Echochrome and PixelJunk Monsters. I hadn’t heard much about either of them, and both are going to be on the PlayStation Network. The other common link between these games is that neither is particularly impressive graphics-wise–one is simple stick figures and the other is hand drawn.

Overall, I was very impressed with what I saw. While Sony and Microsoft fanboys will never see the good in the other’s products, the rest of us can see the great work being done by both companies. I will go in to greater detail on this in future articles, but one of the most telling signs of Sony’s growing mastery over its product is a side-by-side comparison of MLB 08: The Show. While I had been impressed by how pretty last year’s version looked, the latest version made last year’s look pretty bad. And that’s especially telling since developers have until March to get things right.

Stay on Geek.com for longer write-ups of each of these–and all of the other–titles.